Berkeley's 'Principles of Human Knowledge'
A Reader's Guide
1st Edition
Published on 1. March 2009
208 pages
978-1-4411-1984-1 (ISBN)
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Berkeley's Principles of Human Knowledge is a key text in the history of British Empiricism and 18th-century thought. As a free-standing systematic exposition of Berkeley's ideas, this is a hugely important and influential text, central to any undergraduate's study of the history of philosophy.
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"Richmond's Reader's Guide is the perfect companion for those students approaching Berkeley's Principles of Human Knowledge for the first time. In a clear, unpretentious and often unobtrusively witty style, Richmond takes the reader through the work paragraph by paragraph, explaining its meaning, often by appeal to Berkeley's notebooks and other works. He asks the reader stimulating questions to help them engage with the text, and usefully sketches Berkeley's intellectual background and the fortunes of the work's reception. This is a book truly written with students in mind, and all the better for that." - Dr Peter Kail, University of Oxford, UKMore details
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-1984-1 (9781441119841)
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Content
Preface
Note on the Text of the Principles
Abbreviations
1. Context
i. Biography
ii. Berkeley's Philosophical Background
2. Overview of Themes
3. Reading the Text
The Principles - Introduction (??1-25)
The Principles - Part One (??1-156)
The Objects and Subject of Knowledge: Ideas and Spirit (??1-3)
Unperceived Existence: "a nicer strain of abstraction" (??4-7) Problems for Materialism (??8-17)
A Cartesian 'Dream' Argument (??18-21)
The 'Master Argument' (??22-24)
From the Inertness of Ideas to the Existence of God (??25-33)
Philosophical Objections to Immaterialism, and Replies (??34-81)
Religious Objections to Immaterialism and Replies (??82-4) Further Advantages of Immaterialism (??85-100)
"Two great provinces of speculative science" (??101-107) The Attack on Absolute Space (??108-17)
Mathematics (??118-34)
Other Minds (??135-47)
The Divine Language of Nature (??148-156) 4)
Reception and Influence
5) Guide to Further Reading
Index
Notes
Note on the Text of the Principles
Abbreviations
1. Context
i. Biography
ii. Berkeley's Philosophical Background
2. Overview of Themes
3. Reading the Text
The Principles - Introduction (??1-25)
The Principles - Part One (??1-156)
The Objects and Subject of Knowledge: Ideas and Spirit (??1-3)
Unperceived Existence: "a nicer strain of abstraction" (??4-7) Problems for Materialism (??8-17)
A Cartesian 'Dream' Argument (??18-21)
The 'Master Argument' (??22-24)
From the Inertness of Ideas to the Existence of God (??25-33)
Philosophical Objections to Immaterialism, and Replies (??34-81)
Religious Objections to Immaterialism and Replies (??82-4) Further Advantages of Immaterialism (??85-100)
"Two great provinces of speculative science" (??101-107) The Attack on Absolute Space (??108-17)
Mathematics (??118-34)
Other Minds (??135-47)
The Divine Language of Nature (??148-156) 4)
Reception and Influence
5) Guide to Further Reading
Index
Notes
